I'm not sure really what it is I need, but here is the situation. I'm turning part of my office into a music room of sorts, with my desk at one end of the room and the hifi stuff at the other end - I'm guessing the room is around 20x12 or so. I have a cheap set of speakers for my computer that I intend to use for normal computer alerts and the occasional Youtube video. However, I want to be able to 'cast' music over to the main stereo for music as well. I do not have, and do not want, a TV screen at that end of the room, so it needs to be something my computer can 'see' and control but does not require a screen to function.
The hifi setup itself is in limbo now, and is currently cobbled together from various low-end stuff I have lying around. It'll eventually be replaced with a good preamp/DAC (I'm leaning towards the NAD M12 or RME ADI-2, but there are so many to choose from!) and a NAD M22 amplifier, along with a CD transport and a turntable of some kind. Speakers will vary depending on projects going on at the moment, but the likely permanent party will be the Wavecor Ardent. I mention this so you get an idea of the level I'm shooting for, so maybe it would turn out some other streaming thing would do a better job...perhaps even something with local storage and a decent remote control? I have all my music already ripped to FLAC on a Synology NAS (currently about 500GB in all) so I'd really rather not have to do that all over again though.
Anyway, looking for any and all suggestions as I'm really unfamiliar with this arena. I'm sure there are inexpensive solutions out there, but if there's something worth the money I'll certainly entertain it.
The hifi setup itself is in limbo now, and is currently cobbled together from various low-end stuff I have lying around. It'll eventually be replaced with a good preamp/DAC (I'm leaning towards the NAD M12 or RME ADI-2, but there are so many to choose from!) and a NAD M22 amplifier, along with a CD transport and a turntable of some kind. Speakers will vary depending on projects going on at the moment, but the likely permanent party will be the Wavecor Ardent. I mention this so you get an idea of the level I'm shooting for, so maybe it would turn out some other streaming thing would do a better job...perhaps even something with local storage and a decent remote control? I have all my music already ripped to FLAC on a Synology NAS (currently about 500GB in all) so I'd really rather not have to do that all over again though.
Anyway, looking for any and all suggestions as I'm really unfamiliar with this arena. I'm sure there are inexpensive solutions out there, but if there's something worth the money I'll certainly entertain it.
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